Passwords have become ubiquitous in our lives as the main tool of account authentication, but relying solely on passwords is not very secure. With so many websites we use daily requiring accounts and passwords, many individuals reuse passwords or use very weak ones, like password123 [1]. If a password is reused on multiple sites, and …
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RegreSSHion: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH
On July 1st, 2024, the security firm Qualys published their discovery of a vulnerability within the OpenSSH daemon that allowed for unauthenticated, network-exploitable, remote code execution [1]. As a ubiquitous means of secure access to remote servers, the vulnerability allowed for attackers to gain unfettered, superuser access to a majority of servers running Linux, which …
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